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I don't know why they can't make these things last longer. I just had to replace the fan on the left. I don't know how long it wasn't working but you can see that it is much cleaner then the one on the right so maybe it never worked. I have a few of these broken lights so I have a nice supply of fans. I had to add a new fan but also the wiring to the fan didn't work so I just had to splice the new fan to the old one. It's not a big deal but shouldn't happen.

For the last week or two I was a little disappointed because I couldn't find any of my randalls gobi's and one of my Bangai cardinals. I was just working behind the tank and found them both. They are pregnant and fine. So this week I found my Gecko gobi, 2 randalls gobi's and my bangai cardinal. My tank had a lot of caves and hiding places so it is very hard to find certain types of fish.

Hi Tom. Good Morning.

Yes, a blue whale, a small one.

That age I said in the beginning is supposed to read "Fireclown" not firefish which don't live that long at all.

I can't believe it, just now I saw a gecko goby in my tank. I haven't seen that fish in 6 or 8 months. I may have two of them. I bought two of them about 5 years ago and it is a fish that stays well hidden and I have never seen the entire fish. I only get a very quick flash of a tail when I shoot some worms near his cave in the back of the tank. They are a beautiful fish, but no one sees them

Thank you,

It was started in 1971 and was moved three times. The longest it was in one place was 40 years. The last move was almost 3 years ago. The glass was also changed three times as it got scratched from cleaning. It was started in a 40 gallon glass, then for 45 years it was in 100 gallon glass and now 125 gallons. It uses 100% NSW and the oldest fish, a firefish is about 35 or 40 years old. His mate is a couple of years younger and they spawn constantly. There are about 25 fish. Watchman gobies are spawning as are 6 line wrasses, fireclowns and rainsford gobies. It uses dolomite and a reverse Undergravel filter. The ATO, algae scrubber and skimmer are also DIY Nothing was ever quarantined or medicated (Actually it's birthday is in March of this year in 2 weeks so I cheated a little) https://ww

It was started in 1971 and was moved three times. The longest it was in one place was 40 years. The last move was almost 3 years ago. The glass was also changed three times as it got scratched from cleaning. It was started in a 40 gallon glass, then for 45 years it was in 100 gallon glass and now 125 gallons. It uses 100% NSW and the oldest fish, a firefish is about 35 or 40 years old. His mate is a couple of years younger and they spawn constantly. There are about 25 fish. Watchman gobies are spawning as are 6 line wrasses, fireclowns and rainsford gobies. It uses dolomite and a reverse Undergravel filter. The ATO, algae scrubber and skimmer are also DIY Nothing was ever quarantined or medicated. (Actually it's birthday is in March of this year in 2 weeks so I cheated a little) https://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_FFCN5ZBo&feature=youtu.be

SPOTS. Oh NNNooooooo,,,, Spots. It's horrible. No not on my fish, don't be silly my fish are immune. I took my new Jeep to breakfast with my main squeeze and from all the snow there is ice all over my windows and the car is just full of spots. Most of them are salt and I can't just wipe it off because it will scratch and it is to cold to use the hose. The two fish I added last week are fine. The long nose butterfly is best friends with my copperband but the filefish seems to be a loner. He loves picking on the mulm at the sides and back of the tank.

SPOTS. Oh NNNooooooo,,,, Spots. It's horrible. No not on my fish, don't be silly my fish are immune. I took my new Jeep to breakfast with my main squeeze and from all the snow there is ice all over my windows and the car is just full of spots. Most of them are salt and I can't just wipe it off because it will scratch and it is to cold to use the hose. The two fish I added last week are fine. The long nose butterfly is best friends with my copperband but the filefish seems to be a loner. He loves picking on the mulm at the sides and back of the tank.

YH, you don't have to use a Buick bumper. I myself prefer to use Oldsmobile parts but Pontiac or Chevy are acceptable. Just don't use Volkswagon or Toyota parts because that would be the same as using Roaphas although cheaper. It is after 9:00am so now I am going down to my Man/cave fish room to gargle. I can tell by the taste the health and mood of my fish without having to rely on some silly iron rake that Poseidon had. (He was Neptune's first cousin twice removed. )

I got a Covid shot for my wife yesterday at Walgreens but OMG I never seen people work so slow in my life. Her appointment was for 1:00. We got there a little early at 12:30 because we don't exactly live across the street. There was an older guy there giving someone a shot and were were next. The guy giving the shot gets up and leaves. He didn't say anything to us and there was no one else there. We are waiting like 20 minutes and I see someone working there so I asked her whats up? She told me "He went to lunch". He didn't see me standing 3' from him for half an hour and he couldn't tell us he was going to lunch. I thought maybe he went outside to sell his car or start a flash mob while singing the theme song from Dr. Zhivago. Then he came back and it was about 1:15 so he is 15 minutes late. Maybe he had a little gas and wanted to digest. I watched him and I never saw anyone move so slow. He finally started to fill the needle at 2:00. At 2:15 he finished filling the needle. Maybe you have to fill it one drop at a time. Then he started carrying the needle towards us, closer,,,,closer,,,,one step at a time,,,Then he turned around and went back behind the counter. Maybe he got an offer on his car..... At 2:30 he slowly, and I mean slowly started to walk back. This time I walked next to him in case he fell. He sat down and asked my wife some questions like her birthday which was on the form in his hand that I filled out last week. He lifted the needle and aimed it at my wife's arm and,,,and,,,My wife asks him a question. I said NNNNNnnnnnnoooooooo. Forget that. Just give her the shot.......... He wants to answer the question. 3:15 we were on our way home so it only took about 3 hours for a 15 second shot. You younger people will be in the 75 year old range when they get around to giving you the shot.

Sounds like what I like to call "a waste of money". I test my water once or twice a month which takes about 30 seconds being I only test alk. Why would I test anything else? If I spilled chicken soup in my reef I may test for chicken soup but anything else in my water is supposed to be in there. It doesn't go anywhere.

I have no Idea what any of these things are. But I know that King Neptune carried a trident, however I don't know why he would have a reef tank being he was the King of the Sea.

Thanks, I wrote better then.

Rubber Frog. So did I,,Thanks. Oh Nooooo. Dead fish!!!!! My wife and I came back from Costco a little while ago and when I looked in my tank!!!!!!!!! AAAAAhhhhhhhhh, I saw something yellow sticking out from under a rock....... My yellow tang......Dead!!!! OMG, I never have a dead fish. What will I do....My reputation is shot and I will have to go and eat worms, maybe stick my head in the dolomite at the bottom of my tank... Then as I reached for the net, I realized........I don't have a yellow tang. I looked closer and noticed, it was a mangrove tree leaf. I am baby sitting 4 mangrove plants in my tank for someone and I guess a leaf fell off. Oh Well, catastrophe averted.

This is very extremly cool and exciting.

I found my Log book. It seems that in 1982 I got a computer. An Apple 2C. But that didn't go on line. (I don't think there was an internet to go on then but I don't remember. The thing only typed so it was an expensive typewriter. It would also make Christmas cards, banners etc. I kept the log until 1992. Most of it is just when I got a new fish or lost fish. The medications I used and stuff like that. I didn't write the every day mundane things and sometimes I went for months before i wrote anything.

Thanks I went on there before and it seems my video's are set to have comments but some people tell me they can't comment. That is above my pay grade so I can't fix it. But that certainly has all my video's

I don't know how to fix it. It works for me.

I also posted this on another forum because someone asked me if my method would work in a small tank of 29 gallons. Dkmoo, my tank was started in a 40 gallon tank. I started it with ocean water from the East River near Manhattan because thats what I had and I couldn't get ASW. I also used rocks from jetty's in New York. I fed worms and things I could find as there was no salt water food sold at the time. Remember, the hobby didn't even start yet. That 40 gallon tank had some problems for sure. Ich was everywhere and there was no copper medications because we didn't use that in fresh water. I found a scientist who told me about copper so I got pennies and put them in. I found out from Robert Straughn, (The Father of Salt Water Fish Keeping) to use 20 pennies to the gallon. (pennies are no longer made of copper so don't try this) My old log book tells of all the problems I had and the medications I used were for humans and didn't work well. I had a lot of fish then as fish came on the market, I bought them. LFSs were popping up in the 80s but no one knew what they were doing and I bought all the new fish anyway and experimented until I could figure out what the fish needed. At the time I was also SCUBA diving in the tropics and in New York for lobsters. Remember this was way before computers cell phones or the internet so there was also no bad information. As far as I knew, I was the only one with a salt tank. But eventually I figured out what to do and I accidentally started feeding my 7 blue devils live worms that I used to feed to my fresh water tanks of which I think I had 14. They started to spawn and lived for 7 years. Then I discovered that I didn't need the pennies any more and all my fish were living for many years. Of course I had accidents and lost fish as I barely knew what I was doing and when you do things by trial and error, you will fail more then you win. Blue devil eggs circa 1972 It took until the early 80s when I think I had it down to a science and stopped losing fish to communicable diseases. Then much later the internet came out and everyone had an opinion. Thats when the problems started and no one any more experimented, they all asked for opinions. Opinions now are fine but to ask for opinions from people who started the hobby last Tuesday and have kept one damsel for a couple of weeks on life support was not a good idea. I wrote a few articles in the paper magazines then and like now, people would ask me questions. (remember, even in those days I still had the oldest tank around) I would say to feed live worms and clams etc. People would write back and say: Oh thats great, I can't get that so I will feed corn flakes is that OK?.. And thats the way it has always gone. But getting back to your question of a small tank. For many years I kept a 5 gallon salt tank using NSW and rocks from New York water. Much of it was asphalt, cinder blocks and bricks, I hatched out these octopus in a small tank. And kept cool creatures. Most of which I collected in the sea This was my tank I think in the 80s Those small 5 gallon tanks using bricks,NSW and local creatures never crashed or had any disease problems. Not once. Don't tell some of the people on here because it would be an argument as they can't grasp having healthy fish by using parasites to control parasites. Of course none of those people can show their still running tanks from when the hobby started. Remember us Geezers invented quarantine, copper and medications, that is not a modern thing from the internet. It was because we were un informed and didn't realize that the fish could stay healthy if we stayed out of their way and dealt with diseases the way they have been for millions of years.

I have a few https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDCaXm74Uu9aiTwnVub3xOg/videos